Seed-covering attachment for agricultural implements



Jan. 1925- I 1,522,440

F. H. GRAMS I SEED COVERING ATTACHMENT FOR AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS FiledJune 17, 1922 Wfdi 1g 40M Patented Jan. 6, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED H. GRAMS, OF STEWART, llIINNESOTA.

Application filed June 17, 1922.

1/ 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that FRED H. GRAMS, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Stewart, in the county of hIcLeod and State ofMinnesota, has invented new and useful Improvements in Seed-CoveringAttachments for Agricultural Implements, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive andefiicient seed covering attachment for planters and similar agriculturalimplements as a means of drawing the soil into covering and hillingrelation with seed progressively planted in drills or hills; and withthis object in view the invention consists in a construction andcombination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in theaccompanying drawings, wherein 1-- Figure 1 is a side view, and

Figure 2 is a top plan view of a covering attachment embodying theinvention.

Figure 3 is a rear view of the same.

The device consists essentially of a frame having parallel side bars 10connected at their rear ends by a cross bar 11 and supporting crosssectionally U-shaped stiffening bars 12, while depending from the frameand supported by front and rear hangers 13 and 14 are the rearwardlyconvergent blades Serial No. 569,035.

15 arranged at an upward inclination toward their front ends andpreferably transversely inclined or arranged in upwardly divergentrelation cross-sectionally as indicated in Figure 3 to produce theeffect in operation of gathering the soil and shifting or transferringit laterally in both directions toward an intermediate line representedin practice by the line of drill or hills in which the planting iseifected to satisfactorily cover the seed without imposing anobjectionable resistance to the forward progress of the machine inconnection with which it may be employed.

Having described the invention, claimed as new and useful is A hillingor seed covering attachment for agricultural implements consisting ofparallel side bars, a cross bar connecting said side bars at their rearends, cross sectionally U-shaped stiffening bars mounted on top of saidside bars, a pair of covering blades, and front and rear hangersdepending from said side bars and supporting said covering blades todispose the latter at a downward inclination iiearwardly and in rearwardcon vergcnt relation.

In testimony whereof he affixes his nature.

FRED H. GRAMS.

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